AFTER the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Rapunzel, balletLORENT are bringing their latest dance theatre fairytale production to Macrobert Arts Centre next week.

Snow White will run on October 11 and 12 (Tuesday and Wednesday), as the second of the what is the company's fairytale trilogy.

Choreographed and directed by artistic director Liv Lorent, MBE, and retold by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Snow White is the second of the company’s trilogy of fairytale productions after Rapunzel.

Ms Lorent said of the show: “We have found so much to love in the story of Snow White. It is full of darkness and light, like the very best fairytales often are.”

Ms Duffy added: “It’s a joy and a thrill to be collaborating once again with Liv Lorent and her creative team and to be bringing to life another seminal fairytale to family audiences who love dance or who have yet to discover it.”

balletLORENT also welcomes three new collaborators to the artistic team for Snow White: Olivier Award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan (narrator); costumer designer Libby Everall, who previously worked on HBO’s Game of Thrones; and renowned soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, who performed at the Paralympics Opening Ceremony in London.

The company's 11 professional dancers will be joined by a cast of 12 local children, aged 6-9 years old, who were found through an open audition and local primary schools.

Ms Lorent added: “The age range we have worked with in this project is a profoundly important key formative stage in a child’s development, because their sense of self-awareness, empowerment and movement is still developing.

"At this age, they often have innate talent, a lack of self-consciousness, physical beauty in movement, and an urgency for self-expression which can be captured and channeled to great effect through projects like ours.”

The Tuesday takes place at 7pm and at 2pm on Wednesday. Contact the Macrobert Arts Centre box office on 01786 466666 or visit macrobertartscentre.org